Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is facing criticism for remarks about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol that at least one lawmaker in his home state called "racist."
Security forces draw their guns as rioters loyal to former President Donald Trump try to break into the House of Representatives chamber to disrupt the Electoral College process at the Capitol in Washington in January. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced later in January that she would send the article of impeachment against Trump to the Senate, triggering the start of the former president’s trial on a charge of incitement of insurrection over the deadly Capitol riot.
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On the scale of mayhem, what’s gone on in Portland is comparable to or worse than Washington. It’s gone on longer, spawned more injuries to law enforcement, and attempted to disrupt a core government function in this case the judicial branch, which works out of the courthouse.
Yet no praise has issued forth from the halls of Congress.
“Mum’s the word,” said Jeremy Russey, a vice president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 918, which represents FPS officers. “I feel like everything was so anti-Trump that because we worked under the direction of the president at the time we were kind of lumped under his ‘stormtroopers.’”